Widow Violet Sewell is being targeted by vandals who make her life a misery.

She has spent thousands of pounds improving her home but is constantly reduced to tears as yobs plague her with torments.

The partially-sighted great-grandmother has called in the police to help with her plight after the latest incident caused damage to her £5,000 conservatory.

She endures thugs getting drunk near her home before throwing empty vodka bottles into her garden and pelting her windows with mud balls and bricks.

Fed-up Mrs Sewell is at the end of her tether as she struggles through each day, fearing what is going to happen next.

Mrs Sewell, 69, of East Denton, Newcastle, said: "I suffer from angina and glaucoma - that's my eyes - and I am constantly worried what is going to happen to my home.

"I've been through hell. I paid about £5,000 to have my conservatory built and then, last summer, paid £3,000 to have my garden landscaped.

"My house looks beautiful and I'm proud of it, but these vandals make my life a misery.

"The other day I was woken up by a loud bang during the early hours and couldn't see what had happened. It was the next morning when I realised the window had been broken in my conservatory. I reported it to the police and less than 24 hours later the hooligans had smashed another window in the conservatory."

"They don't hang about for long so you don't get a good chance to see them. I just wish they would go away.

"I have been here for 38 years. We moved here when they were first built by the council and brought up a family. When my husband, Sam, died in 1984, I bought the house and have since spent a lot on it to make it beautiful. But the nicer I make it, the more things happen and the youths just get more and more destructive."

A Northumbria Police spokesman said: "We are aware of two reports of criminal damage made this week at Mrs Sewell's address.

"The incident is ongoing and local officers have been made aware of the problem and the repeat damage."